Short & sweet summary of the hypocrisy of Syrian situation

**bogan** · 14th October 2015, 10:43

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

IQ tests are 'fundamentally flawed' and using them alone to measure intelligence is a 'fallacy', study finds
results cast into doubt tests that have been used to link cognitive ability to race, gender and class

Have you looked into correlation between the aggregates or weighted aggregates of the three section result scores they found, and the single score given by IQ?

I mean it's all well and good to read a news story and go, yes, I like that result; but I beleive I mentioned something about being intelligent enough to apply the IQ results...

**TheDemonLord** · 14th October 2015, 11:00

As an aside - it has been theorized that some people with low or average 'traditional' IQ results may have higher intelligences in other areas (the common one being emotional intelligence) I will admit it's been a while since I have read anything on the subject.

**Banditbandit** · 14th October 2015, 13:01

Originally Posted by bogan

Have you looked into correlation between the aggregates or weighted aggregates of the three section result scores they found, and the single score given by IQ?

I mean it's all well and good to read a news story and go, yes, I like that result; but I beleive I mentioned something about being intelligent enough to apply the IQ results...

Hang on .. I believe that, once again, you have mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck ..

**bogan** · 14th October 2015, 13:04

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Hang on .. I believe that, once again, you have mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck ..

Which incidentally, is the number one reason why it is so easy to get a high IQ.

**jonbuoy** · 14th October 2015, 17:23

Originally Posted by bogan

Have you looked into correlation between the aggregates or weighted aggregates of the three section result scores they found, and the single score given by IQ?

I mean it's all well and good to read a news story and go, yes, I like that result; but I beleive I mentioned something about being intelligent enough to apply the IQ results...

IQ tests don't and can't test problem solving, alternative/creative thinking, social skills/awareness, ability to cope under pressure/stress. Which are generally pretty desirable in a lot of jobs and situations.

**flyingcrocodile46** · 15th October 2015, 17:49

This guy usually does well researched and verifiable source reports (though notably not so for this report).

However, I think he identifies some reasonably plausible scenarios as to how Russia might be looking at playing their geo-strategic cards.

Worth a look imo.

**Conquiztador** · 15th October 2015, 21:24

Originally Posted by flyingcrocodile46

This guy usually does well researched and verifiable source reports (though notably not so for this report).

However, I think he identifies some reasonably plausible scenarios as to how Russia might be looking at playing their geo-strategic cards.

Worth a look imo.

Impressive. Calculated, well planned and ticking all the right boxes. Add all other things that are going on behind the scene and EU plus USA are running out of options. In fact some of the Europan countries are starting to wonder if they have backed the right player. Like or hate Putin, perhaps chess has proven to be a better game than Space Invaders when one wants to teach strategy...

**SPman** · 18th October 2015, 20:42

Dmitri Orlov sums it all up....

Prattling on about “freedom and democracy” in the Middle East is also silly because the entire region is tribal—has been tribal for a few thousand years, and will be tribal for a few thousand more. In each locale, some tribe is on top. If the idea is to carve it up into sovereign territorial units (none of which qualifies as a nation, because each one ends up being multinational) then each territorial unit ends up being ruled by some tribe while others grumble. Blunder in and exploit their grumbling to bring about “regime change”—and the whole place invariably burns down.

A case in point is Israel: it's got the top dog tribe—the Jews, and they can shoot or bomb anybody else with impunity. It is considered “democratic” because the Jews get to vote, which is very nice for the Jews. The Alawites in Syria get to vote too—and vote for Bashar al Assad—so why isn't that good enough? Because of American hypocrisy and double standards.

It's like that right down the line. Saudi Arabia is owned by one tribe—the House of Saud, and everybody else is disenfranchised. Iraq used to be run by the Sunnis from Saddam Hussein's tribe, but the Americans dislodged them, and now what remains of it is ruled by the Shia from the south of the country while the Sunnis ran off and joined ISIS. This can all seem like super-simple stuff, but not for the Americans, because it runs counter to their ideology, which dictates that the world must be remade in America's image. And so they keep trying to do this (or keep pretending to be trying, because results don't matter as long as their military contractors get paid) and don't seem to care one bit that this is making them look very silly.

And so the typical pattern has been this: the US bombs a country to smithereens, mounts a ground invasion, sets up a puppet regime and, promptly or not so promptly, pulls out. The puppet regime falls apart, and then you have either ungovernable chaos or some new, especially nasty form of dictatorship, or a little of each: a failed state, like Libya, and Yemen, and much of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It doesn't much matter that this is the result (as long as the military contractors are getting paid) because America's motto seems to be "Look Silly and Carry On." Wreck a country—and it's on to the next bombing campaign.

http://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2015/10...pire.html#more

**Tazz** · 19th October 2015, 11:17

Originally Posted by SPman

Dmitri Orlov sums it all up....

http://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2015/10...pire.html#more

Since the early days of the USAs invasion of Afghanistan their own (the USoA) military leaders on the ground have been saying similar to be fair.

**Brian d marge** · 19th October 2015, 18:21

Originally Posted by SPman

Dmitri Orlov sums it all up....

http://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2015/10...pire.html#more

What is the house of bush motto

ORDO AB CHAO

Order out of chaos

Just been talking to an irainian fella . .his opinion

Isis aint muslin . Assad is a little hitler but is much preferable to isis

And tehran is safer than new york

I would agree with that . .me thinks

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